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Greetings all. I've been having great difficulty getting Dovecot working. I'm getting stuck with using mbox directories outside of /home. Dovecot keeps giving me this message: imap(ncrosby): Namespace '': stat(/var/logmail/mbox/ncrosby) failed: Permis sion denied (euid=1001(ncrosby) egid=1001(ncrosby) missing +w perm: /var/lo gmail/mbox/ncrosby stat(/var/logmail/mbox/ncrosby) failed: Permission denie d, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) in=0 out=340 I've tried letting Dovecot create this directory, I'v...

Thanks for taking a look. > this is owned by root, and it's complaining about > /var/logmail/**mbox**/ncrosby > and dovecot cannot create this because mbox is only writable by root That's definitely not the issue. As I explained, I've played with permissions through the entire /var/logmail tree (including the /var/logmail/mbox directory). Another configuration in which the exa...

....28, Nelson Crosby <nc at sourcecomb.com> wrote: > > I've tried letting Dovecot create this directory, I've tried creating this > directory manually and giving it any permission I can think of, I've tried > playing about with the permissions throughout the entire /var/logmail tree, > but to no avail. That usually means you've SELinux enabled and it prevents the access.